Erik Camarena Instructor Canestrino CJ 3230 15 March 2024 Police Subculture Police subculture is derived from a group or agency having a similar set of values and beliefs that often created a sense of unity within the officers. I believe police subculture can be used as a legitimate training tool that can guide new officers into becoming better individuals. Police subculture is often based on a set of “core values” which can shape an agency in a way they believe to be fit. The “core values” can either have positive or negative aspects depending on the agency. For example, some positive attributes would be safety, empathy, teamwork, loyalty, and sacrifice. Some negative attributes are prejudice, biases, close-mindedness, and loyalty. One thing …show more content…
If a department lacks a strong set of core values, it can shape the entirety of the department, making the officers less inclined to be better. A department that lacks a guideline to be better can corrupt these officers and destroy the reputation of every officer. For example, if an officer is close-minded and believes their way is the only way to do things, officers would start to follow blindly without ever noticing if they are truly doing the right thing. Another example would be an officer planting evidence on an individual to make an arrest, if a new recruit sees that and the behavior is promoted, that would make the new officer more inclined to follow the same footsteps. The goal of having a good set of “core values” is to create a line between what is right and what is wrong. Looking at both the positive and negative attributes of police subculture, one attribute tends to stick out and that's loyalty. How police subculture can create loyalty dilemmas. The “loyalty dilemma” is created by the police subculture which reinforces a sense of core values in the officer to believe their way is the only way to do things (Belshaw et al.,
Police Subculture Police subculture is often a culture that is known and practiced within the policing organizations. It is an unwritten and undocumented set of values that members are aware of and act according to on a day to day basis. Because the subculture is so prevalent, and what the consequences entail if you defer from it, officers often conform into what is expected of them by their peers. This paper will focus on how police officer’s lives and decision-making processes are affected by all
Tattoos have slowly then all at once became a subculture of its own. Although not everyone has them, everyone does know about them. -- “Tattoos have long been a hobby for some, it seems an interest in them may be broadening, Today 21% of U.S. adults report having a tattoo which is up from previous years” (Harris One In Five). With this statistic in mind we ask ourselves, what draws people to getting a tattoo? Is it to show rebellion, strength, or maybe even love? It could be those things but it could
concerned with, especially since there is a violent subculture in this nation which seeks out and indoctrinates people into their way of life. The crime that I will be focusing on during the course of this paper will be domestic terrorism, specifically hate groups such as the KKK, and various other white supremacy groups. The theory that I will be using to try and explain these crimes will be subcultural theory, but more especially the Subculture of Violence theory provided to us by Marvin Wolfgang
Reducing ‘Use of Force’ / ‘Excessive Force” Incidents through Intervention The use of force is a power inherited with the role police hold given the authority granted to them by the state to satisfy the objectives of law enforcement, such as the prevention of crime and the maintenance of law and order. The use of this power however is an option to be utilized as a last resort within reasonable levels and only in regards to resistance. On occasion an officer may be required to use force, this is determined
A subculture is a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differ in some significant way from that of larger society. Marijuana smokers can be considered a subculture for many reasons. Marijuana is used by millions of people around the world, either for recreational, spiritual, or therapeutic reasons. Some call themselves the cannabis connoisseurs; people who respect cannabis and use it responsibly. Few drugs have been so politicized recently as marijuana
A subculture is a group of within a society that has its own shared set of values, norms, beliefs, interests that functionally unify them, and that are different from those held by the majority of society. Marijuana comes from the Sativa plant and the stems, seeds and leaves are usually brown or green. Marijuana can be smoked, from a joint, blunt, bong, pipe, hookah and handmade materials such as plastic or even food like an apple, it can also be baked into food and brewed as tea. Millions of people
Brandon Locklear Criminal Justice Ethics April 2017 Research Paper: Criminal Justice Ethics CJC 232-OI Instructor: Mr. Rudy Locklear Robeson Community College 2017 By: Brandon Locklear Criminal Justice Ethics Outline I. Introduction II. Ethical Systems III. Ethics and the Police IV. Ethics and the Courts V. Ethics and Correctional Officers VI. Ethics, Probation, and Parole Officers VII. Conclusion I Introduction Criminal justice and ethics are closely related
The prison subculture has impacted the way inmates view the prison environment, and for the most part, the subculture reflects various hardships of imprisonment such as “deprivation of liberty, autonomy, security, goods, and services, and heterosexual relationships” (Clear et al., 2013, p. 274). Prison subculture also causes inmates to dislike or distrust law enforcement authorities and the criminal justice system (Fowler et al., 2010). For this reason, inmates who have been sexually victimized by
use excessive force, less likely to be involved in acts of aggression, and are better communicators in the field (7,6). Why is it so difficult to recruit female officers? Only 21% of sworn officers are females in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2015). Research suggests that women face additional stressors in policing then their male colleagues (7). Dominant constructs of masculinity and gender inequality shape the outcome of how female officers are treated in comparison to their male counterparts. This
This is paper is a personal reflection on the views reflected by Thomas Plante the author of Do the Right Thing. Living ethically in an unethical world. Thomas Plante interprets principled and ethical understanding into realistic life approaches. By use of his five moral mechanisms for making tough Life decisions Plante steers readers all the way through a step-by-step process for generating a individual fair foundation based on truthfulness, capability, individual responsibility, admiration, and
Police misconduct encompasses illegal actions or the violation of individuals’ rights by police officers in the conduct of their duties. A wrongful conviction of a citizen can result from police misconduct of only one officer. They are expected to exceed the standard and follow the agency’s operating policy when it comes to professional conduct. Likewise, if they violate the trust of their office, they should receive a harsher punishment than a normal citizen. The formal law enforcement code of
surveillance tape so that the criminal can be identified. The dilemma of this practice comes from the moral conflict it creates. Do the civil liberties and privacy issues that are taken away justify the protection and safety that CCTV provides? This paper will look at the moral, statistical, and ethical issues of CCTV. It will look at whether CCTV reduces crime significantly enough to justify the moral and ethical violations it produces. CCTV has had its share of successes. One of the greatest successes
specific gang linked this crime or crime with knives or guns, means that this will persist at the top of the community protection schedule, with their also being a rising sense amongst the public for the necessity to fight this troubling drift. Various research schemes such as Operation Chrome and Operation Cruise became operational in order towards developing additional understanding into gang associated behaviour in Manchester and London, this was as a reaction to high profile killing cases such as: Stephen
American rave subculture. The scene described above was my initiation into the underground subculture where rave kids, typically under twenty-one years old, are given secret invitations to attend private warehouse parties with dancing, drugs, and thousands of their closest friends. Because of my youthful and unorthodox appearance, I was invited to join the then-highly-exclusive underground scene and attended numerous raves in several major cities in North Carolina. Although my chosen subculture was not
Research Context Being new to a college campus, I've learned to adjust. I’ve stepped outside my comfort zone and learned to explore various outlets. Little did I know that the college culture didn’t fall too far from the typical high school environment. Subcultures, or what I’d like to call clicks, seemed to be something that transcends from each level of schooling. In college this subculture is known as the Greek system and it is one of the major outlets students use for socializing. I decided to